Baldwin nails Trump with SNL masterstroke
Alec Baldwin has skewered Mr Trump on SNL. Photo: YouTube.
Alec Baldwin is being lauded for his take-off and take-down of presidential candidate Donald Trump in the first instalment of the new season of Saturday Night Live.
Baldwin and comedienne Kate McKinnon parodied the first presidential debate on the sketch-comedy institution, with Baldwin’s performance, in particular, being hailed as a masterpiece of mimicry.
“Our jobs are fleeing this country. They’re going to Mexico, they’re going to Ji-na. I’d stop that,” Baldwin imitated with stunning aplomb.
“If Hillary knew how she would have done it already, end of story. I won the debate, I stayed calm just like I promised, and it is over. Good night, Hofstra.”
Meanwhile, McKinnon’s Ms Clinton entered the stage walking with a cane, a reference to a bout of pneumonia.
Mr Trump’s tax plan was “not just trickle-down economics,” the Ms Clinton character said, in a parody of her reportedly scripted approach.
“It’s — I don’t know, I guess if I had to call it something off the top of the old dome, with no prep whatsoever, I don’t know, I guess I’d call it Trumped-up, trickle-down economics.”
And after claiming he had “the best judgment, and the best temperament,” Baldwin’s Mr Trump character went on to blame Ms Clinton and President Barack Obama for tampering with his microphone.
Watch the Baldwin and McKinnon performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2neyQA5TDo